We are anchored in a beautiful bay just north of the main town of Gaios.There is no wind and it is hot. We anchored here in early July but now there are so many boats it was hard to find room. We decide to see Gaios town. Andy wants to ride. He thinks it is about 5 Kms, so we take him to the beach. We go by tender to town. Wandering around Jo and JB are a disaster. Jo is a bad influence on Janet in the shopping department. The rest of us just enjoy the small to...

We left Athens by taxi for a 3 hour trip to Patra on the Gulf of Patra. We cross the Corinthian Canal which we cruised through on 4th July. The coast on the south side of the Gulf is the Peloponnese Peninsula which is lush with pencil pines, for trees and large rugged mountains. Patra is a thriving town being a major ferry terminal to the islands of the Ionian Sea. We take a 3 hour ferry trip to Sami on Keffalonia. It is a large ferry fully booked out. We arri...

Athens again! Another relaxing four hour voyage to Zea Marina, in Piraeus. The Hickey's and Nelson's race off to see museums, JB and Therese treat themselves to a hairdo, while Jack goes with MB to pick up his new hand made Italian shirts, Wow!! At 6.30 pm we have our pirate party. It is finally captain Paul's turn to dress as captain Jack Sparrow and he excels in the role. Everyone gets in the spirit with dressing up, rum punch and Irish music, a bit like a 'h...

We want to break the long voyage from Mykonos to Athens. Half way is the island of 'Kythnos', so we decide to head there. This is the second last Cycladic island heading north. The next island to this is Kea where we had stopped on our voyage to Turkey. This island is usually only visited by Greeks, so it's quiet and undeveloped compared with others in the Cyclades. We decided we did not need to visit anymore Greek Island townships, as by now they are all startin...

It is hard to find a place to moor the boat again. It is very windy so we are forced to look for a bay in the sheltered south. Most of the really good bays are full of either large or small cruising bays and yachts. We find a small bay with only one large cruiser, it is called super paradise beach. Our guide Ardi from Santorini has introduced us to his mates here in Mykonos, Claudio and Yanni. We do a deal with them to provide two Jeep Wranglers with them as dri...